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Are you a business owner, executive, leader, team leader, aspiring future leader, leadership junkie, a scientist, a design thinker, or simply the leader of your own life? If you are, then you are a leader, and as such, you should be experimenting!

Welcome to The Experimental Leader, a podcast where we tackle the ways leaders are experimenting in their own work. Hosted by Melanie Parish and Dr. Mel Rutherford, we dive into the most interesting questions about leaders and get into real-life conversations about how people might be experimenting with their leadership. What they are trying? How they are leading and managing their flow of work and throughput? How are they managing bottlenecks, mission, vision, strategic, operational, and tactical intents? How do they organize experiments? How do they succeed? How do they fail? How do they collect data?

The loneliness of leadership can be overwhelming, especially when a leader gets promoted and doesn’t have a roadmap for how to lead. They might feel like they are supposed to have the answers, and yet they have to figure out what that really means. The hardest part can be not having anyone to talk to about their leadership journey.

Achieve Excellence by Doing Ordinary Things Extraordinarily Well with Dave McKeown

  The show’s guest in this episode is Dave McKeown. He is the CEO of Outfield Leadership and author of The Self-Evolved Leader – Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down. Dave McKeown helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve excellence by doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well. —     Listen to the podcast here Achieve Excellence by Doing Ordinary Things Extraordinarily Well with Dave McKeown Hello, it’s so nice to be here with you live today on the experimental leader Podcast. I’m Melanie Parrish. And I’ve been thinking about experimenting inRead More

Reputation Management for Leaders with Bant Breen

  The show’s guest in this episode is Bant Breen.Bant is a successful global marketing and media executive, entrepreneur, and academic. He is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Qnary, an award-winning executive reputation management and talent branding solutions company. —     Listen to the podcast here Reputation Management for Leaders with Bant Breen Hey, it’s great to be here live with you today. Super fun to be here. I’ve been thinking about my own leadership. And I’ve been thinking about where I try to remove bottlenecks. And, you know, I have people I work with and people IRead More

Learning How to Find, Bid, and Win Profitable Contracts with Kizzy Parks

  The show’s guest in this episode is Kizzy Parks. She’s a GUINNESS WORLD RECORD title holder and she’s a serial entrepreneur. —     Listen to the podcast here Learning How to Find, Bid, and Win Profitable Contracts with Kizzy Parks Hey, everybody. It’s great to be here with you live on the experimental leader Podcast. I’m super excited to be here today. And I’ve been thinking about bottlenecks. I love thinking about bottlenecks. I think they’re super interesting. And I wanted to tell you a story about my son. So my son’s a competitive swimmer, his name’s Emerson.Read More

Experimenting with conflict with Sean Castrina

  The show’s guest in this episode Sean Castrina. He’s a best selling author. He’s a serial entrepreneur. And he’s the host of the 10 Minute Entrepreneur Podcast. And he started his first company at the age of 23. And he has not stopped since his book came out last April called Developing The Entrepreneur Within. —     Listen to the podcast here Experimenting with conflict with Sean Castrina Hey, it’s great to be here with you live on the experimental leader podcast today. I always want to give you a copy of my book. And I’m going toRead More

Overcoming Adversity, Resilience and Keeping a Positive Mindset with Fiona Demark

  The show’s guest in this episode is Fiona Demark. She is a life coach, and an inspirational speaker with over 25 years experience helping others achieve their dreams and a lifetime of experience overcoming diversity. —     Listen to the podcast here Overcoming Adversity, Resilience and Keeping a Positive Mindset with Fiona Demark Hi, it’s great to be here with you live today. I’ve been thinking about leadership and loss. And I know that everyone’s had so much loss this last couple of years. I got word this morning that a friend and colleague died yesterday. And itRead More

Leading Disruption with Sam Nguyen & Hunter Smith

  The show’s guests in this episode are Sam Nguyen and Hunter Smith. Sam Nguyen and Hunter Smith have both been working with Extinction Rebellion at chapters across Canada for the past 2 years. They are now mentor groups on how to use civil disobedience to achieve their aims. —     Listen to the podcast here Leading Disruption with Sam Nguyen and Hunter Smith Hey everybody, it’s great to be here with you live today. And I am with you from Las Cruces, New Mexico. I’m, I’ve been thinking about my own leadership lately, mostly because our family madeRead More

Helping Remote Communication Suck Less with Josh Little

  The show’s guest in this episode is Josh Little. He is the founder of four tech companies–Maestro, Bloomfire, Quizzer, and Volley–that have collectively been used by hundreds of millions of people and featured in TechCrunch, Mashable, Entrepreneur, Inc, and Forbes. With two successful exits and a third anticipated, he’s currently on a mission to help remote team communication suck less with his fourth creation, Volley–a video messaging app.  Tune in, and be transformed! —     Listen to the podcast here Helping Remote Communication Suck Less with Josh Little Hey, everybody, it’s super great to be here with youRead More

Addressing Bias and Incivility in the Workplace with Robin Rosenberg

  The show’s guest in this episode is Robin Rosenberg. She is a psychologist, author, executive coach, speaker and CEO and founder of Live in their world. Her company in part uses virtual reality to address issues of bias and upskill employees. Tune in, and be transformed! —     Listen to the podcast here Addressing Bias and Incivility in the Workplace with Robin Rosenberg Hello, it’s great to be here live with you, the first week of January. Happy New Year. And I’ve been thinking about my own leadership. And I’m really thinking about, you know, people are talkingRead More

Highly Sensitive Leading with Heather Dominick

  The show’s guest in this episode is Heather Dominick. She’s the creator of businessmiracles.com. She trains Entrepreneurs and Leaders to create more impact (and more income!) with less effort – by doing things differently – since 2010. —     Listen to the podcast here Highly Sensitive Leading with Heather Dominick Hello, it is so nice to be here with you live today. It’s the last podcast before the holidays. And I’ve been thinking about leadership and my own leadership. And I had a conversation with a client. That was really interesting about the idea of radical acceptance ofRead More

Designing New Workplace Experiments with Melissa Boggs

  The show’s guest in this episode is Melissa Boggs. She’s a leadership coach, and an employee experience design consultant. She’s also the host of the wild hearts at work podcast, redefining our relationship with work through stories and conversations, and those challenging the status quo of today’s workplace. —     Listen to the podcast here Designing New Workplace Experiments with Melissa Boggs Hey, it’s so great to be here live with you today, I am hailing you can see in the background, I’m hailing from my dad’s house in New Mexico. And this morning, I’m thinking about forRead More

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